Re: Recent vuln disclosure papers/presentations

[<halvar () gmx de>]

Hey all,

please do not consider this email as flamebait, it is not intended to be.

> that in the end it is economics that rules including
> in the information security sphere.

The interesting part is that "economics" has taken the place of "ideological
argumentation", with very little difference. From a science-theoretical
(german word is "wissenschaftstheoretischer", e.g. the theory on how 
sciences
are constructed and pursued) standpoint economics is a particluarly 
fascinating
animal, since in almost all cases the authors of a paper know in advance 
what
they're trying to show. They then set out to construct a model that allows 
their
target to be deduced. This is still in tune with what many physicists would 
do.

The interesting part comes in the "empirical" portion of a majority of the 
economics
papers: A dataset is presented that does not contradict the presented 
thesis. I am
still somewhat confused how the existence of at least one noncontradicting 
dataset
implies validity of the thesis, but I am just a lowly student ;)

I love economics papers. The cool part about economics is that one can 
support
(almost) any thesis with it.

Cheers,
Halvar 

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